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reduced. In Japan, medical costs are more than 40 trillion JPY and the
national government’s burden is more than 15 trillion JPY. If the health
of people improves, it’s not too much to say that the medical costs will
be reduced and a lot of money can be allocated to the cost of social
security.
I’m sure that Olympic and Paralympic Games are good opportunities
for sports industry to propose the scheme of how to involve sports to
lifestyle continuously to the people who are moved by the power of top
athletes.
It’s necessary to strengthen motivation of individual health in order
to involve sports to lifestyle, but it’s not easy. If people think “What can
we do for a nation?” it could be said that “Our social responsibility is to be healthy.” To avoid lifestyle related diseases
might be individual responsibility. If people are healthy, there is an economical merit that they don’t need to pay
medical cost. We, sports industry, should advocate the merit to hold Olympic and Paralympic Games.
WFSGI already set up the committee on Physical Activity and refer to “Design to Move”, which is the report of
how to involve sports to lifestyle. Also, WFSGI has close relationships with WHO and operate the organization
”Sports Forum” for sports promotion in cooperation with sports academy of IOC.
We have 6 sports organization in Asia zone of WFSGI, and TSMA is the active member. Dr. George Wood takes
active leadership in WFSGI as a Board Member. Also, there is deep bond between TSMA and JASPO for a long time.
I would like to conclude my comments by wishing success and prosperity of TSMA and the member by the
leadership of chairperson of TSMA.